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The Capability Approach

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The capability approach: justice should secure what people are actually able to do and be—capabilities—not merely income or formal liberties.

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Two citizens with equal incomes: one uses the library; the other, unable to read, cannot. Resources equal, real freedom not.

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Sen and Nussbaum developed the approach as a measure and a standard—which capabilities count stays debated.

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